She had been confirmed by Premier Nikita Khrushchev himself.
Her training included weightless flights, rocket theory, 120 parachute jumps and pilot training in MiG jet fighters. She had been selected for the Soviet space program from 400 applicants. Tereshkova was not only physically beautiful, but also a great athlete - a superb skier and expert skydiver who had made her first parachute jump at age 22. This was more than a half-century ago, on June 16, 1963.įor millions of women in the Soviet Union and worldwide, Tereshkova, then aged 26, became a promise of the future. “All the baby girls in the hospital except one are being called Valentina,” she enthused. While Tereshkova was orbiting Earth as pilot of the Russian space ship Vostok 6, a 10-year-old Russian friend of my daughters rushed into our apartment in Moscow - where my husband and I were living while covering the Soviet Union for The New York Times - with her exciting news of the birth of a new baby sister named Valentina in honor of the cosmonaut.
Russian space pioneer cracked#
When Hillary Clinton cracked the glass ceiling, becoming the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States, she joined the ranks of other pioneer women, including the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova. Cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Valentina Tereshkova and Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev.
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